On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:27:43PM -0500, Justin Bell wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 11:23:22PM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> # On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 01:29:42PM -0800, Samuel Dries-Daffner wrote:
> # >
> # > How can I move the syslog.mail file and make a new one safely?
> # >
> # > The one I have is 62 MB and represents about 15% of our root partition.
> # >
> # > Thanks in advance for any help on this :)
> #
> # mv syslog.mail syslog.mail.1
> # killall -HUP syslogd
> #
>
> I know this is good intentions and all, but please don't advise people to use
> the killall command unless you KNOW exactly what it does on their system.
You are SO right. I've shot myself in the foot real hard one time with that.
Greetz, Peter.
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